Birth is an intensely stressful event for both the baby and the mother. Stress hormones help the baby adapt to the...
Microbiome
Make clinical data reviews more efficient with the interactive visualisation of Patient Profiles
From context to implementation of idea An important step in any clinical trial is the blind data review. This process...
How does our platform AnonyMine solve the problem of Data Anonymisation?
Would you like to reuse data for other studies, communicate on internal research, or just publish sensitive data? By...
[ARTICLE] Microbiome Analysis: 16S Metabarcoding or Shotgun Metagenomics?
To date, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques remain the most commonly used methodologies for studying the microbiome, a major subject of scientific research in recent years. Among the thousands of articles published each year (illustration 1), two main...
[ARTICLE] Skin-to-skin contact: an effective anti-stress strategy that also favourably impacts the gut microbiota
Birth is an intensely stressful event for both the baby and the mother. Stress hormones help the baby adapt to the new, cold, dry, and oxygen-rich environment outside the womb. However, excessive stress can be harmful. Fortunately, the body has anti-stress mechanisms...
Make clinical data reviews more efficient with the interactive visualisation of Patient Profiles
From context to implementation of idea An important step in any clinical trial is the blind data review. This process takes place between the end of the study (when the data are collected, input, and validated) and the breaking of the blind and final data lock, after...
How does our platform AnonyMine solve the problem of Data Anonymisation?
Would you like to reuse data for other studies, communicate on internal research, or just publish sensitive data? By becoming GDPR-compliant, our anonymisation platform AnonyMine, specialized in high-dimensional data such as clinical and microbiome, gives a second...
[ARTICLE] Vaginal seeding: a natural supplementation for newborns?
In some maternity wards, babies delivered by caesarean (C)-section undergo a strange practice, called « Vaginal seeding »: one hour before the surgery, a sheet of gauze is inserted into the mother's vagina, which is used, immediately after birth, to dab the baby in...
[ARTICLE] – How is microbiota involved in childhood mental illnesses such as ADHD and ASD?
There is growing evidence that the gut and the brain are linked. First observation: mental illnesses are commonly associated with gastrointestinal disorders, patients with neurological diseases often experience constipation, abdominal pain, or diarrhoea. Second: the...